Ownership of Rural Land in the Southeast

Excerpts from the report Summary: Recent changes in agricultural production, the introduction of industries into rural areas, and movement of nonfarm families to rural residences have created a need to reexamine the pattern of rural landownership in the Southeast. In the fall of 1960, 2,643 landowners, chosen by a probability area sample in the Southeast, were interviewed. Owners were classified as individuals, corporations, or public agencies. Such items as characteristics of owners, acreages of various kinds of land owned, method of land acquisition, ownership rights, land use, and plans for land transfer were tabulated